Alex Demirović

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Alex Demirović (* 1952 in Darmstadt-Eberstadt ) is a German social scientist and a representative of critical theory .

Life

From 1971 Alex Demirović studied philosophy , sociology and German studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , interrupted by short study visits to Marburg and Paris . He received his doctorate in philosophy in 1979 under Alfred Schmidt with an epistemological-discourse-analytical study of Marxist aesthetics. After completing his studies, he worked at various research institutes, between 1990 and 2001 he worked at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main. In 1987 Demirović received a habilitation grant from the German Research Foundation . With a history of science study of the importance of the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School in science, politics and culture in the post-war Germany he was in 1992 in political science and political sociology habilitation . Since 1990 Demirović has held numerous professorships and visiting professorships at German and non-German universities.

In 2003, despite a clear decision by the department, Demirović's appointment to a sociology professorship at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main was rejected by the university's senate and the Hessian Ministry of Science. University President Rudolf Steinberg was actively involved in this process . Numerous international scholars (including Judith Butler , Wendy Brown , Bob Jessop , Nancy Fraser , Iris Marion Young ) submitted petitions in favor of Demirović. In 2007 Demirović became an adjunct professor at the University of Frankfurt am Main.

From 2007 he taught at the Technical University of Berlin as a visiting professor . This position ended on September 30, 2012, as the political science course expired on the same date. In 2013 and 2014 he was visiting professor for critical social theory at the University of Frankfurt am Main, since then he has been an adjunct professor at this university again. He is currently a Senior Fellow of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Berlin.

The anthology Perspectives and Constellations of Critical Theory , published in 2015, goes back to a conference on the occasion of his 60th birthday in 2012. Many of his companions, such as Bob Jessop and Ulrich Brand , have contributed to this.

Research priorities

Demirović's scientific work is understood as a contribution to the further development of the critical theory of society. According to his understanding, such a project cannot be pursued as a continuation of a single, privileged tradition, other lines of theory and questions must be taken into account, contradictions between them must be understood as an incentive for further research. In addition to the older critical theory of Theodor W. Adornos and Max Horkheimer, points of reference are other heterodox traditions following Marx , newer economic-critical discussions, state-theoretical approaches, post-structuralist power and discourse analyzes as well as critical cultural research. Demirović's work focuses on state and democratic theory.

On the basis of a comprehensive concept of the social division of labor, they are about a relational, practical theoretical understanding of economy, politics and the state as well as of culture. Society should be understood in its objectivity as the historically specific result of constitutive practice of people and in its complexity determinable through common action.

Memberships

Alex Demirović was a member of the editorial board of Prokla magazine until May 2018 , then moved to the magazine's advisory board. He is also the chairman of the scientific advisory board of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and is active on the advisory board of the Federation of Democratic Scientists (BdWi). He is also a member of ver.di , the DGS and DVPW professional associations and the Attac scientific advisory board . He is also a fellow of the Berlin Institute for Critical Theory and he belongs to the Association for Critical Society Research . Demirović is a member of the advisory board of the scientific open access journal Momentum Quarterly, which was founded in 2012 .

Publications

author
  • Beyond the aesthetics. On the discursive order of Marxist aesthetics. Frankfurt am Main 1982.
  • Nicos Poulantzas - a critical examination. Hamburg 1987. 2nd edition: Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-89691-622-8 .
  • Democracy, ecology, ecological democracy. Democracy ideas and concepts of the new social movements and the party "THE GREENS". Frankfurt am Main 1989.
  • Change in the understanding of democracy. The relationship between democracy and the public in the Federal Republic since the late 1970s. Together with Ulrich Rödel and Günter Frankenberg. Research report of the Institute for Social Research. Frankfurt am Main 1994.
  • Democratic self-image and the challenge from the right. Student and Politics in the Nineties. Together with Gerd Paul. Frankfurt am Main, New York 1996.
  • Democracy and rule. Aspects of critical social theory , Westphalian steam boat, Münster 1997, ISBN 978-3-89691-371-5
  • The non-conformist intellectual. The development of critical theory for the Frankfurt School. Frankfurt am Main 1999.
  • Democracy in business. Positions - Problems - Perspectives. Westphalian steam boat, Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-89691-656-3 .
  • Economic democracy, council democracy and free cooperation , in: WIDERSPRUCH, No. 55/2008.
  • Council democracy or the end of politics , in: PROKLA - Journal for Critical Social Science, Issue 155, 2009.
  • Economy and democracy. In: Axel Weipert (Ed.): Democratization of Economy and State - Studies on the Relationship between Economy, State and Democracy from the 19th Century to the Present. NoRa Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86557-331-5 .
  • Science or stupidity? On the destruction of rationality in educational institutions , VSA Verlag, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-89965-572-8 .
editor
  • Non-governmental organizations in the transformation of the state. Together with Ulrich Brand , Christoph Görg , Joachim Hirsch . Munster 2001
  • Complexity and Emancipation. Critical social theory and the challenge of Niklas Luhmann's systems theory. Münster 2001, ISBN 3-89691-494-4 .
  • Cycles of racism. Together with Manuela Bojadzijev. Münster 2002, ISBN 3-89691-516-9 .
  • Models of critical social theory. Traditions and Perspectives of Critical Theory. Stuttgart 2003.
  • Critical theory in social structural change. Together with Joachim Beerhorst and Michael Guggemos. Frankfurt am Main 2004.
  • Criticism and materiality. Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-89691-748-5 .
  • Nicos Poulantzas' understanding of the state: The state as a social relationship. Together with Stephan Adolphs, Serhat Karakayali. Baden-Baden 2010.
  • The subject - between crisis and emancipation. Together with Christina Kaindl, Alfred Krovoza. Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-89691-771-3 .
  • Democracy and Governance: Critical Perspectives on New Forms of Political Rule. Together with Heike Walk. Münster 2011, ISBN 978-3-89691-872-7 .
  • Multiple crisis: in finance-dominated capitalism. Together with Pauline Bader / Florian Becker / Julia Dück. Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-89965-404-2 .
  • Remember against neoliberalism. Left knowledge politics and socialist perspectives. Together with Christina Kaindl. Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-89965-523-0
  • What is the “State of Marxism”? Social and Epistemological Conditions of Critical Theory Today . Together with Sebastian Klauke and Étienne Schneider, Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster 2015, ISBN 978-3-89691-717-1 .
  • Transformation of Democracy - Democratic Transformation. Münster 2016, ISBN 978-3-89691-843-7 .
  • Europe - what's left? , together with Mario Candeias , Münster 2017, ISBN 978-3-89691-850-5 .
  • Rethinking economic democracy , Münster 2018, ISBN 978-3-89691-283-1 .
  • Emancipation. On the history and topicality of a political term. Together with Susanne Lettow, Andrea Maihofer , Münster 2019, ISBN 978-3-89691-282-4 .
  • Critical Theory Handbook. 2 volumes. Together with Uwe H. Bittlingmayer and Tatjana Freytag, Wiesbaden 2019, ISBN 978-3-658-12696-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Plöse: The professor strike . In: Telepolis . October 15, 2007.
  2. ^ Website of the University of Frankfurt
  3. ^ Members of the scientific advisory board. In: Attac. Retrieved July 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Demirović, Alex
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German scientist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt-Eberstadt